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Tradition’s ParFX has added six crosses to
its list of currencies supported on the platform, including the Hungarian
forint.
Par says that in recent years, the
Hungarian forint has become “increasingly popular among the global FX trading
community”, with ...

FXCM has partnered
with FlexTrade to provide pricing for CFD products.
In a statement
released today, FXCM says that it will be integrating its CFD pricing with
FlexTrade’s technology.
This means that
brokerage clients using FlexTrade's order management system (...

A joint survey and report by the Alternative Investment
Management Association (AIMA) and S3 Partners, a financial data and analytics
firm, highlights the impact that Basel III reforms are having on hedge funds
and the alternative asset manager industry. The ...

Effective March 1,
2016, FastMatch is introducing fee reductions in an attempt to grab market
share.
For clients that are
not utilising services of a CCP, Fastmatch is offering of $1.50 per million
notional for clients trading more than an average daily volume (...

FXCM has reported average
institutional trading volume was $1.6 billion per day in December
2015, 20% lower than the $2 billion in November 2015 and 54% lower than the
$3.5 billion in December 2014.
FXCM also reported that
institutional customer trading volume for the full year of 2015 was $534
...

A year ago investors were caught on the wrong-foot when
the Swiss National Bank (SNB) unexpectedly lifted the cap on its currency,
prompting one of the biggest moves in the foreign exchange markets seen for
decades. The aftermath of the ...

BGC Partners’ merger
with GFI Group has been completed.
"We are happy to have completed the
final step in merging BGC and GFI. The combination dramatically increases
the scale and scope of the company, and we expect the resulting improvement ...

Sucden Financial has established a new multi-product execution
team in London.
Heading the team is Rick Brunton, previously senior vice
president of futures and options sales at Jefferies Bache. He has previously
held positions with Cargill Investor Services, Mitsubishi Trust ...

Coquest has
launched its new portfolio service, Coquest Managed Assets.
The new
service will design and customise alternative asset portfolios for the high net
worth individuals, family offices, RIAs and institutional clients.
“This was
our plan from the beginning,” says ...

TradAir is expanding its presence in Asia by opening a local
office, and deploying servers, in Singapore.
Ayal Jedeikin, co-founder and COO TradAir, says; “TradAir
provides a high performance, always available global e-FX web trading platform,
hosted in the cloud ...